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A good ride with Big Al. Al's supposed to be a check instructor, and I had made the appointment as such, but with the weather having been so bumpy, I wasn't past solo like I was supposed to be -- he allowed me the privilege this time, and I got yet another perspective on things. I like Jason's approach to things, and still hearing it from different perspectives allows me to "triangulate" a little. Besides a lot of little hints and a flight with a good guy, Al's big contribution on this ride was to get me to relax my grip -- he kept saying that on the last check-ride, and I know that when I'm intent on 25 things at once, I tend to grip and my hand goes to sleep, but what I didn't realize was the parasitic yoke back-pressure that was built into the iron clench. The plane descends a lot better when you're not pulling back on the yoke. On one go-around, he had me go through the stages of flaps and watch what happens when you just don't even touch the yoke. What happens is, it the airplane descends at about the right rate and airspeed. All you got to do is turn and manage the throttle. Good stuff.
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